Come On Shore And We Will Kill And Eat You All: A New Zealand Story (HB, 2008)

Description: Come On Shore And We Will Kill And Eat You All: A New Zealand Story (HB, 2008) Title: Come On Shore And We Will Kill And Eat You All Sub Title: A New Zealand Story Genre: History ISBN: 9781596911260 Format: Hardback Author: Christina Thompson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publication Date: 2008 Language: English Number of Pages / Size (cm): 270, 20.8 x 13.6 x 1.9 Weight (gm): 450 ---------- Book Condition / Grade: Fine Dust-jacket Condition / Grade: Fine ---------- Synopsis: An extraordinary love story between a Maori man and an American woman, that inspires a graceful, revelatory search for understanding about the centuries-old collision of two wildly different cultures."Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All" is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maori's of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maori's in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.As an American graduate student studying literature in Australia, Thompson travelled on vacation to New Zealand, where she met a Maori known as Seven. Their relationship was one of opposites: he was a tradesman, she an intellectual; he came from a background of rural poverty, she from one of middle-class privilege; he was a native, she descended directly from colonisers. Nevertheless, they shared a similar sense of adventure and a willingness to depart from the customs of their families and forge a life together on their own.In this extraordinary book, which grows out of decades of research, Thompson explores the meaning of cross-cultural contact and the fascinating history of Europeans in the South Pacific, beginning with Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 and James Cook's famous circumnavigations of 1769-79. Transporting us back and forth in time and around the world, from Australia to Hawaii to tribal New Zealand. Come On Shore And We Will Kill And Eat You All: A New Zealand Story (HB, 2008) Title: Come On Shore And We Will Kill And Eat You All Sub Title: A New Zealand Story Genre: History ISBN: 9781596911260 Format: Hardback Author: Christina Thompson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publication Date: 2008 Language: English Number of Pages / Size (cm): 270, 20.8 x 13.6 x 1.9 Weight (gm): 450 ---------- Book Condition / Grade: Fine Dust-jacket Condition / Grade: Fine ---------- Synopsis: An extraordinary love story between a Maori man and an American woman, that inspires a graceful, revelatory search for understanding about the centuries-old collision of two wildly different cultures."Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All" is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maori's of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maori's in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.As an American graduate student studying literature in Australia, Thompson travelled on vacation to New Zealand, where she met a Maori known as Seven. Their relationship was one of opposites: he was a tradesman, she an intellectual; he came from a background of rural poverty, she from one of middle-class privilege; he was a native, she descended directly from colonisers. Nevertheless, they shared a similar sense of adventure and a willingness to depart from the customs of their families and forge a life together on their own.In this extraordinary book, which grows out of decades of research, Thompson explores the meaning of cross-cultural contact and the fascinating history of Europeans in the South Pacific, beginning with Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 and James Cook's famous circumnavigations of 1769-79. Transporting us back and forth in time and around the world, from Australia to Hawaii to tribal New Zealand. × Buy now and save! Shipping info Click the Shipping & Payments tab above the listing description for more info Click the Shipping & Payments tab above the listing description for more info! 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